A 35-Year Veteran of an Accounting Firm, Lewis Spoke at an Intern

A 35-year veteran of an accounting firm, Lewis spoke at an intern orientation meeting on "How Computers Changed Accounting Tasks in the 1970s and 1980s." Which of the following reasons best explains why his speech was not well received by the audience?

A) The talk was not appropriate for a youthful audience who had little knowledge of or interest in previous accounting practices,
B) The talk was interesting and informative, but most of the students already knew about accounting practices in the 1980s.
C) The interns in general were not very interested in accounting practices and were just there to make money over the summer.
D) The generational differences between the speaker and the audience were too much to overcome, regardless of the speech.
E) His speech was informative rather than persuasive, and as such did not match the emotional tone of the event.